Bering's Voyages: The log books and official reports of the first and second expeditions, 1725-1730 and 1733-1742. The first expedition, 1725-1730, and its setting. The geographical knowledge of the north Pacific Ocean at the beginning of the eighteenth century
Bering's Voyages: The log books and official reports of the first and second expeditions, 1725-1730 and 1733-1742. The first expedition, 1725-1730, and its setting. The geographical knowledge of the north Pacific Ocean at the beginning of the eighteenth century

Author: Frank Alfred Golder

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Published: 1922

Total Pages: 418

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Translated from the logs and journals. Includes a chart of the voyage of Bering and Chirikov in the St. Peter and the St. Paul from Kamchatka to the Alaska coast and return, 1741, based on the log books and other original records and adjusted to known physical conditions by Ellsworth P. Bertholf (v.1).

Literature of Travel and Exploration
Literature of Travel and Exploration

Author: Jennifer Speake

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-05-12

Total Pages: 1425

ISBN-13: 1135456631

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Containing more than 600 entries, this valuable resource presents all aspects of travel writing. There are entries on places and routes (Afghanistan, Black Sea, Egypt, Gobi Desert, Hawaii, Himalayas, Italy, Northwest Passage, Samarkand, Silk Route, Timbuktu), writers (Isabella Bird, Ibn Battuta, Bruce Chatwin, Gustave Flaubert, Mary Kingsley, Walter Ralegh, Wilfrid Thesiger), methods of transport and types of journey (balloon, camel, grand tour, hunting and big game expeditions, pilgrimage, space travel and exploration), genres (buccaneer narratives, guidebooks, New World chronicles, postcards), companies and societies (East India Company, Royal Geographical Society, Society of Dilettanti), and issues and themes (censorship, exile, orientalism, and tourism). For a full list of entries and contributors, a generous selection of sample entries, and more, visit the Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia website.